CRAFT is a software suite that has been designed to assist scientists in the area of product safety, hazard and risk assessment and toxicology to interactively evaluate the chemical reactivity, persistence, biodegradation and fate of chemical compounds in the environment. CRAFT provides decision support to faster estimate the environmental impact of existing chemicals or to discover and optimize better and safer new chemical entities and products.

Features & Functionality

Generation and evaluation of biodegradation products of chemical substances in the environment

Generation of degradation trees and pathways weighted by the likelihood of occurrence of the individual reaction steps

Built-in knowledge base of chemical reactivity and biodegradation derived from the University of Minnesota Biocatalysis and Biodegradation Database (nowadays maintained as Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database by EAWAG)

Extendible knowledge base to include user-defined models and rules for chemical reactivity and biodegradation

Flexible design to plug-in third party tools or to call external applications

Generation of printable and editable reports with user-definable level of detail

Open-source application available under LGPL licensing terms

User Interface

In order to maintain, extend and apply the knowledge base for the evaluation of chemicals, CRAFT consists of two main applications.

CRAFT Editor - GUI-based program to inspect, modify and extend the contents of the knowledge base

CRAFT Explorer - GUI-based program providing a wizard-driven interface with a predefined workflow that supports the user during the evaluation session (including command line interface for batch mode execution)

Additional Info

Downloadable PDFs

Free Downloads

The downloadable packages include both CRAFT Editor and CRAFT Explorer applications, the initial CRAFT knowledge base in a standard SQL and CRAFT export archive (.jex) format as well as the program manuals and the installation guide.

An extended version of CRAFT with rules on rat S9 metabolism developed within the project OLIMPIC (Overcoming current Limitation In Metabolism Prediction of Industrial Chemicals) funded by CEFIC-LRI, Brussels, Belgium (LRI-Q2-MN-081212).